Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Coal trains at Blackwater Canyon
Coal is big business on the Allegheny & Lackawanna Southern. Contributing editor Lionel Strang photographed a pair of Alco C-424s…
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Coal is big business on the Allegheny & Lackawanna Southern. Contributing editor Lionel Strang photographed a pair of Alco C-424s…
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Conrail’s Delancey Street engine terminal in Oak Island, N.J., is filled with locomotives being serviced and waiting for their next…
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Two Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT) GP40s lead a freight through the industrial district of North Kansas City. Gary Hoover photographed the scene…
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The freelanced Mokena Railroad is an Alco paradise. Here we see RS-3 no. 3 and RS-1 no. 1 leading a…
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Maintenance-of-way crews play an important role in keeping trains moving safely on the Utah Belt. Eric Brooman of St. Peters,…
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It’s a busy afternoon on Jay Polk’s N scale Arkansas Division layout. A pair of Missouri Pacific Alco road switchers…
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In the August 2025 issue of Model Railroader, we featured Art Kear’s HO scale Buffalo & Susquehanna to Wellsville, Addison…
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe train no. 4, the “Southern Fast Mail,” hustles through Parmerton, Texas, on Jay Miller’s HO…
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New York, New Haven & Hartford RS-1 no. 0667 brings a local freight past the S&J Donohue General Store in…
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Soo Line’s train No. 6, powered by 4-6-2 no. 736, eases up to the depot in the fictional community of…
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The industrial community of Charlemont keeps Graylock Terminal crews busy. Today, Alco RS-3 no. 38 will switch the local…
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With the late afternoon sun casting long shadows, Staten Island Rapid Transit S-2 no. 488 pulls a cut of boxcars…
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